Full-court press

EDITORIAL
THE PUEBLO CHIEFTAIN

THE LOWER Arkansas Valley Water Conservancy District originally had planned to file suit against the Bureau of Reclamation by the end of last week, but that filing has been delayed.

And, we hope, for good reason.

The district wants to block a contract between Reclamation and Aurora which would give that Denver suburb a 40-year contract to store and exchange water in Lake Pueblo.

That reservoir was built as part of the Fryingpan-Arkansas Project to bring unused water from the Western Slope into the Arkansas Valley. The project never was envisioned - as the language of the Fry-Ark authorization bill so clearly shows - to be used to export water out of this valley’s over-appropriated river.

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